zarah

See also: Zarah and žarah

Indonesian

Etymology

Inherited from Malay zarah, from Classical Malay ضاررح (dharrah), ذرح (dzarah), ذره (zarah), زررح (zarrah), from Arabic ذَرَّة (ḏarra, “tiny particle, speck, mote”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /za.rah/
• Rhymes: -rah
• Hyphenation: za‧rah

Noun

zarah (plural zarah-zarah, first-person possessive zarahku, second-person possessive zarahmu, third-person possessive zarahnya)

1. tiny particle, speck
2. particle:
   1. (biology, ecology, uncommon) small object
   2. (physics, uncommon) any of various physical objects making up the constituent parts of an atom; an elementary particle or subatomic particle.
3. atom

Alternative forms

• zarrah

Synonyms

• (particle): partikel
• (atom): atom

Derived terms

• menzarah
• sezarah

 

• zarah awan
• zarah bebas
• zarah identik
• zarah ribosom
• zarah teras

 

Further reading

• “zarah” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Sumerian

Romanization

zarah

1. Romanization of 𒊕𒉺𒆸 (zaraḫ)